Project Manager (State exp strongly need)

Sr Project Manager - PMP Required
Location: Mechanicsville, VA (Local consultants only)

The selected candidate will:

- Serve as a hands-on technical project manager with development staff and business groups.
- Coordinate and communicate with ITD management and staff to coordinate work tasks and resourcing.
- Communicate timelines and expectations to technical and business staff.
- Collaborate with vendors, consultants, and contractors in the execution of projects including contract management and working with the procurement office(s).
- Collaborate with technology leads and solution architects to incorporate agency best practices into project plans.
- Adhere to VDOT and VITA project management practices and governance requirements; coordinate with VDOT and VITA Project Management Offices.
- Maintain project budget, plans, tasks, schedules, risks, and status and disseminate information to team members and customers as defined in the communications plan.
- Monitor progress by third-party vendors and define and measure their progress with metrics.
- Ensure documentation of requirements and use cases, facilitate design workshops for assigned projects.
- Ensure definition of test objectives, designed test plans and test cases for assigned projects.
- Provide the management of project milestones and deliverables for on-time and on-budget delivery.
- Define, measure, and clearly communicate progress with metrics.
- Support system and application training efforts.

Required:
- The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years experience managing large projects and a bachelor's degree.
- Experience in IT Infrastructure delivery (networking, physical plant, vendor management, site provisioning).
- Experience managing large, multi-stream projects.
- PMP or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards for IT Project Managers for Category 4 Projects. See: http://www.vita.virginia.gov/oversight/projects/default.aspx?id=589

Preferred:
- Experience in both Agile and Waterfall project management.
- Agile Scrum Master certification
- Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
Special Instructions to Applicants:

- This position requires a fingerprint-based background check.
- PMP certification from PMI Required

Required/Desired Skills